Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2, sentence 26
Then he discovered that she was no person at all, but a big toad (omα′kαk·i·‵).
Who acts: Nenebuc, queen, i · What happens: discover, be, kαk · To what, where: person, all
This is a sentence of «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Myths and Folk-lore of the Timagami Ojibwa., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nenebuc, queen, i), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 discovered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 person | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 person | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 person | cop |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 person | det |
| 8 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 person | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 toad | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 toad | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 toad | det |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 toad | amod |
| 15 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | parataxis |
| 16 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 19 kαk | punct |
| 17 | omα | omα | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 kαk | amod |
| 18 | ′ | ′ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kαk | compound |
| 19 | kαk | kαk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 toad | appos |
| 20 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 19 kαk | punct |
| 21 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 kαk | nsubj |
| 22 | · | · | PUNCT | _ | 23 ‵ | punct |
| 23 | ‵ | ‵ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kαk | conj |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 kαk | punct |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | Nenebuc | then | a big toad parataxis | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | queen | no person | all | tree rules | |||
| 3 | kαk | i | ‵ conj | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Myths and Folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa» by Frank G. Speck, Project Gutenberg book 66509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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